Laboring in the obscurity he so richly deserves for over a decade now, your crusty correspondent sporadically offers his views on family, law, politics and money. Nothing herein should be taken too seriously: If you look closely, you can almost see the twinkle in Curmudgeon's eye. Or is that a cataract?

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

And what will be on the commander in chief test?

A Clinton-Obama dream team? Candidate Clinton has floated that idea from the hustings in recent days, suggesting that voters torn between voting for the first woman to head a national ticket and the first African-American to head a national ticket should vote for her... and maybe get Obama too.

Meanwhile, out of the other side of her mouth, or rather out of the mouth of Hillary Clinton's chief spokesman Howard Wolfson, Clinton contends that Obama is not qualified to be Vice President. Quoting from the linked Tribune article by Mike Dorning:

Wolfson reaffirmed Clinton’s position that Obama has not demonstrated his suitability to guide the nation in an international crisis.

“We do not believe at this point that Sen. Obama has passed that key commander in chief test,” Wolfson said.

What that test might be -- or how Hillary passed the test by going to foreign funerals and making good will tours as First Lady -- is left somewhat vague. People are simply expected to assume she's passed the test.

If there really were a written test, I'd have no doubt that Senator Clinton would get an A. She probably never even received so much as a B in her entire, storied academic career. We all know people like that: Most of them can't function in the real world.

Meanwhile, the little girl sleeping soundly at 3:00 a.m. in the recent, successful Hillary Clinton 'red phone' commercial, is nearly 18 now (she was 8 when the footage was shot, originally for a railroad commercial) turns out to be an Obama supporter.